<p>Although I PM'd this to jmmom, I'll post here also for completeness. We have a family friend who is a sophomore at Univ. of Colorado at Boulder in the Aerospace Engineering department. He seems to have had a lot of opportunities to get involved with some big NASA projects even in his first 3 semesters. They claim to be the "12th ranked aerospace engineering program in the country (U.S. News and World Report, 2005)".</p>
<p><a href="http://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/%5B/url%5D">http://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/</a></p>